Eleanor has extensive international arts and educational experience, leadership & teaching, ranging from higher education in many universities, work-based learning initiatives – industry to education, vocational training development and research-led projects.

From September to December, 2010, Eleanor was invited as Visiting Professor / Artist in Residence at University of California Santa Cruz to continue her research and enjoy her artistic practise. She was delighted with the opportunity to exchange links with Australia and the United States of America and to share her interests extending over arts, science, communication and media. Eleanor looks forward to touring her ‘Finger Codes’ exhibition, works produced at UCSC and looks forward to new exciting projects.

Eleanor is well known for her creative endeavours, artistic achievement and business application, hence been awarded Fellow of the Australian National University (08-09), Visiting Researcher at National ICT Australia, (NICTA) and Research Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz.

In 2008 Eleanor received a Taiwan Visiting Scholar award following her research enterprise into Visualisation and Communication of ICT and her work as the Australian Curator of ‘Boom! An Interplay of Fast & Frozen Permutations in New Media’, 2007 International New Media Festival, Taiwan.

Eleanor is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), Australian National University and her research interests firmly overlap education, media-arts, science, communication and printmaking. Her CV is available on request .

Earlier arts interest and education

Eleanor’s interest in the arts began at a young age with her artistic enthusiasm encouraged and nurtured by her art teachers (Jack Evans & Dave Moxon) at Hurlfield Comprehensive Secondary School (now Sheffield Springs Academy). The school was the first in Sheffield to have a dedicated arts centre with theatre and art studio / classrooms unique with excellent facilities and professional teachers.

Her undergraduate Fine Arts education began at the Sheffield Art School (Psalter Lane) (now Sheffield Hallam University) and taught by Fran Hegarty, Dick Cowell & Graham Bevan and later in the printmaking department by Ted Veevers, Stan Jones, Maurice Senior and Keith Barnsley.

Eleanor spent one year of undergraduate degree at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Polytechnic (now known as Northumbria University) and studied intensely in the print department, Tutors: Will Cowen, Paul Rogers & Gordon Senior.

After graduating from Sheffield Hallam University, Eleanor was awarded a prestigious ‘Fellow in Residence’ at Sunderland Polytechnic (now University of Sunderland) before embarking on her postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, at the London Institute (now known as the University of the Arts, London). Her supervisors were Tim Mara and Peter Daglish, as well as other staff: Mike Birtchnell, Richard Beer, Dick Hart, Jeff Edwards and Chris Plowman.

Completing her postgraduate education, Eleanor was an invited lecturer at several UK universities as well as continuing her artistic practise and attaining awards: DAAD residency at Atelierhaus Worspwede in Germany (working alongside artist Bryan Ingham) and later as Researcher / Artist in Residence at Nottingham Trent University.

Before leaving England to work at the Australian National University as Head of the Australian Centre for Arts & Technology (ACAT) and Centre for New Media Arts (CNMA), Eleanor enjoyed working at the University of Lincoln (Faculty of Arts & Technology - Hull School of Art & Design UK). Firstly as the Head of Printmaking with staff: Ken Henderson, Walter Chamberlain, Simon Ringe & Roland Box and later as Head of Design – one of three principal lecturers at the School of Art & Design: other pl’s: Rob Gawthrop and Jenny Wolmark.

Eleanor’s research interests, exhibitions and awards were linked through the above text. Also see ‘Archive’ page for earlier artworks.